Blackberry continues its foray into the health IT field with this week's launch of a new operating system for medical devices.

In a recent Health Affairs blog post, two principals at Booz Allen with experience working on large-scale government and healthcare data analytics projects share four best practices for big data success.

The global electronic data interchange market, tools helping the healthcare industry move claims and supply chain management from paper-based documentation to electronic mode of transactions, is expected to be worth $1.68 billion by 2018, according to a Research and Markets…

House lawmakers are urging CMS to exempt pathologists in Medicare diagnostic labs from reimbursement penalties for not using electronic health records.

Patients often receive reminders for various elements of their healthcare, such as reminders to take their medicines and confirming upcoming appointments. Interestingly, patients prefer different modes of communication for different reminder types, according to a survey administered by FICO, an…

An emergency room nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City was fired earlier this month after posting a picture of an empty trauma room on Instagram, according to an ABC news report.

For the second time, an Illinois court has dismissed a class-action suit brougt against Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health and Hospitals for a data breach occurring last summer, according to a Law360 report.

In 2005, the phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations” was coined in an attempt to explain the frustrating phenomenon of continued educational underperformance despite growing federal investment in education. The idea is straightforward: well-intentioned policy decisions that lower both…

CommonWell Health Alliance, a group of 11 health IT companies focused on fostering data exchange among healthcare stakeholders, has announced an important step toward more robust data exchange happening this summer.

Payers are increasingly offering telemedicine services in an effort to reduce unnecessary hospital visits and overall healthcare costs.